September 02, 2021 2:10 PM
TOKYO (BLOOMBERG) – Early last month at a sprawling factory on the highway connecting Hanoi to the Vietnamese port city of Haiphong, a single worker tested positive for Covid-19. The Delta variant was spreading swiftly through the South-east Asian nation at the time, and on Aug 4, provincial officials suspended work at the plant, run by an auto-parts manufacturer.



